Email: laing@ucar.edu
Phone: 303-497-8147
Postal Address: P.O. Box 3000, Boulder, CO, 80307-3000
Shipping Address: 3450 Mitchell Lane, Boulder, CO, 80307-3000

Professional Interests

Convective precipitating systems, tropical cyclone rainfall, satellite estimates of precipitation, flash flood mitigation, mesoscale and volcanic ash fall modeling, and wildfire forecasting

Recent Publications

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LaJoie, M., Laing, A. G., 2008: The influence of El Nino-Southern oscillation on lightning in the Gulf coast of the United States, Part I: Lightning climatology. Monthly Weather Review, 136, doi: 10.1175/2007MWR2227.1, 2523-2542.

Laing, A. G., LaJoie, M., Reader, S., Pfeiffer, K., 2008: The influence of El Nino-Southern oscillation on lightning in the Gulf coast of the United States, Part II: Monthly correlations. Monthly Weather Review, 136, doi: 10.1175/2007MWR2228.1, 2544-2556.

Laing, A. G., Carbone, R. E., Levizzani, V., 2008: The propagation of deep convection in Africa: Implications for predictability of precipitation. International Association of Hydrological Sciences (Redbook Series), 313, 24-32.

Laing, A. G., Carbone, R. E., Levizzani, V., Tuttle, J. D., 2008: The propagation and diurnal cycles of deep convection in northern tropical Africa. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 134, doi: 10.1002/qj.194, 93-109.

Yoksas, T., Bruintjes, R., Foote, G. B., Heck, S., Herrmann, S., Hoswell, E. B., Kucera, P. A., Laing, A. G., Lamptey, B., Moncrieff, M., Pandya, R., Ramamurthy, M., Roberts, R., Spangler, W. M., Warner, T. T., Weingroff, M., 2008: The UCAR Africa Initiative - overview and update. Conference on International Topics.

Byrne, M. A., Laing, A. G., Connor, C. B., 2007: Predicting tephra dispersion with a mesoscale atmospheric model and a particle fall model: Application of Cerro Negro volcano. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 46, 121-135.